One of the most delightful gaming experiences of my entire life. HAL knocked it out of the park!
I admittedly don't have very much experience with Kirby, I really only played the original Dreamland on Game Boy as a kid and Adventure on the Wii Virtual Console. But this truly feels like that perfect 3D translation of the latter's gameplay, in the same way Breath of the Wild was to the original Zelda. Kirby finally made the jump and he did it with flying colours.
This game is so consistently fun that it was hard to put down. And it's not as easy as I anticipated either. Those early worlds are nice and breezy, sure, but some of those later challenges and post-game bosses are certainly no pushovers. A lot of correct timing and pattern recognition to take into account. The levels are just pure fun and full of surprises, and they really feed into my "comb everywhere and find everything" itch. Between the collectibles, missions, levelling up copy abilities, timed challenges, minigames, and boss rush there is a surprising amount of replay value here.
I admittedly don't have very much experience with Kirby, I really only played the original Dreamland on Game Boy as a kid and Adventure on the Wii Virtual Console. But this truly feels like that perfect 3D translation of the latter's gameplay, in the same way Breath of the Wild was to the original Zelda. Kirby finally made the jump and he did it with flying colours.
This game is so consistently fun that it was hard to put down. And it's not as easy as I anticipated either. Those early worlds are nice and breezy, sure, but some of those later challenges and post-game bosses are certainly no pushovers. A lot of correct timing and pattern recognition to take into account. The levels are just pure fun and full of surprises, and they really feed into my "comb everywhere and find everything" itch. Between the collectibles, missions, levelling up copy abilities, timed challenges, minigames, and boss rush there is a surprising amount of replay value here.